News
December 16, 2017
We announce the new editors of three of our co-sponsored journals.
Andreas Kyprianou will take over as editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability (from January 1, 2018 for three years), replacing Brian Rider. Giambattista Giacomin becomes the editor of Electronic Communications in Probability, replacing Sandrine Péché. Ben Hambly…
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released two new publications: Guidelines on Measuring Trust and Guidelines on Measuring the Quality of the Work Environment.
Trust, at the interpersonal and institutional level, is a key ingredient of growth, societal well-being and governance. To improve existing measures of trust,…
Introducing Takis Konstantopoulos, one of our Contributing Editors.
Takis did his basic studies at NTUA in Greece where he learned a lot about many subjects (“from complex analysis to quantum mechanics, signal processing, control…”) and his MSc (on Lévy’s Brownian motion) and PhD (in stochastic networks) at UC Berkeley.…
Coming up in 2018, we have a number of special lectures at IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.
Most of these will be delivered at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, held in conjunction with the 12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (July 2–6, 2018). The…
IMS Textbooks: Lectures on the Poisson Process
Günter Last, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Mathew Penrose, University of Bath
The Poisson process, a core object in modern probability, enjoys a richer theory than is sometimes appreciated. This volume develops the theory in the setting of a general abstract…
